[Bug 1765485] Re: update-notifier-release notification is not shown

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Title:
  update-notifier-release notification is not shown

Status in update-notifier package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in update-notifier source package in Artful:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  [Impact]
  Come to find out that the desktop's graphical-session.target is not working in Bionic nor in Ubuntu 17.10. The update-notifier-release check (.path and .service files) are part of that and subsequently are not working. These raise a dialog letting the user know of the availability of a new release of Ubuntu. They should be fixed for both releases. It will be fixed by restoring update-notifier's old behavior running check-new-release-gtk every couple of days which is sad!

  [Test Case]
  1) Ensure /etc/update-manager/release-upgrades has Prompt=normal
  2) Modify /usr/lib/ubuntu-release-upgrader/check-new-release-gtk and set the --devel-release option to a default of "True" this is needed since bionic is still in development
  3) Use dconf-editor modify com.ubuntu.update-notifier.release-check-time and set the value to 0
  4) kill update-notifier
  5) run update-notifier --debug-new-release check
  Observe a dialog regarding Ubuntu 18.04 being available

  [Regression Potential]
  The job is already broken and users won't get the check-new-release-gtk dialog about the next release so this'll be an improvement although check-new-release-gtk will be run regularly.

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